US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on July 21 for "Aerosol-generating system with puff detector" (Swiss, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. RE50,963, issued on July 21, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Aerosol-generating system with puff detector" was invented by Oleg Mironov (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik (Peseux, Switzerland), Jerome Christian Courbat (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Tony Reevell (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating system includes a liquid-storage portion configured to hold a liquid aerosol-forming substrate, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a control system. The second electrode is spaced from the first electrode. At least a portion of the liquid storage portion is arranged betwee...